Sentence examples for attempt a modicum from inspiring English sources

The booths divide logistically into those that put up display labels and those that do not (making it necessary to ask), and between those that attempt a modicum of curatorial thought and those that just put out the merch.

You'd think that, with a subject like that, authors would attempt a modicum of creativity themselves.

And just this week the Shabab announced the opening of a new "War Statistics Office," clearly an attempt to convey a modicum of professionalism.

In an ambitious, if flawed, attempt to secure a modicum of justice, the attorney-general's office has so far obtained confessions by 158 former paramilitaries to 4,300 crimes, and identified some 40,000 victims who are supposed to be compensated.But problems persist.

His about-turn seems to have been partly based on the sense that the investigation was coming closer to his office, partly by an attempt to retain a modicum of control by announcing he would step down in six to nine months' time, and partly by the entreaties of those close to him who were telling him this was a crisis of a different magnitude to those he had experienced in the past.

If the move was an attempt to gain a modicum of respectability, it backfired.

This is a story we all know well: the Englishman's doomed attempt to capture a modicum of old glory, to prove that England is still the centre of the world.

The 44th president of the United States channeled the lofty rhetoric and grumpy spirit of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman respectively for what would be his final attempt to salvage a modicum of victory from a damaged economy he inherited and has failed to reverse.

Moderate Arab leaders who have attempted to introduce a modicum of democracy are tainted by their connection to an administration that is now radioactive in the Muslim world.

The thing about Sia's attempts to retain a modicum of anonymity that seems to mystify people, the reaction I've seen more than any other, is: "But, she's pretty".

When President Rafsanjani, a pragmatist, led Iran in the 1990s, his attempts to repair a modicum of relations with the U.S. were rebuffed by President Clinton who responded with crushing sanctions on the country.